This notebook walks you through one of the most popular Udacity projects across machine learning and artificial intellegence nanodegree programs. The goal is to classify images of dogs according to their breed.
If you are looking for a more guided capstone project related to deep learning and convolutional neural networks, this might be just it. Notice that even if you follow the notebook to creating your classifier, you must still create a blog post or deploy an application to fulfill the requirements of the capstone project.
Also notice, you may be able to use only parts of this notebook (for example certain coding portions or the data) without completing all parts and still meet all requirements of the capstone project.
In this notebook, some template code has already been provided for you, and you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully complete this project. You will not need to modify the included code beyond what is requested. Sections that begin with '(IMPLEMENTATION)' in the header indicate that the following block of code will require additional functionality which you must provide. Instructions will be provided for each section, and the specifics of the implementation are marked in the code block with a 'TODO' statement. Please be sure to read the instructions carefully!
In addition to implementing code, there will be questions that you must answer which relate to the project and your implementation. Each section where you will answer a question is preceded by a 'Question X' header. Carefully read each question and provide thorough answers in the following text boxes that begin with 'Answer:'. Your project submission will be evaluated based on your answers to each of the questions and the implementation you provide.
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The rubric contains optional "Stand Out Suggestions" for enhancing the project beyond the minimum requirements. If you decide to pursue the "Stand Out Suggestions", you should include the code in this IPython notebook.
In this notebook, you will make the first steps towards developing an algorithm that could be used as part of a mobile or web app. At the end of this project, your code will accept any user-supplied image as input. If a dog is detected in the image, it will provide an estimate of the dog's breed. If a human is detected, it will provide an estimate of the dog breed that is most resembling. The image below displays potential sample output of your finished project (... but we expect that each student's algorithm will behave differently!).

In this real-world setting, you will need to piece together a series of models to perform different tasks; for instance, the algorithm that detects humans in an image will be different from the CNN that infers dog breed. There are many points of possible failure, and no perfect algorithm exists. Your imperfect solution will nonetheless create a fun user experience!
We break the notebook into separate steps. Feel free to use the links below to navigate the notebook.
In the code cell below, we import a dataset of dog images. We populate a few variables through the use of the load_files function from the scikit-learn library:
train_files, valid_files, test_files - numpy arrays containing file paths to imagestrain_targets, valid_targets, test_targets - numpy arrays containing onehot-encoded classification labels dog_names - list of string-valued dog breed names for translating labelsfrom sklearn.datasets import load_files
from keras.utils import np_utils
import numpy as np
from glob import glob
# define function to load train, test, and validation datasets
def load_dataset(path):
data = load_files(path)
dog_files = np.array(data['filenames'])
dog_targets = np_utils.to_categorical(np.array(data['target']), 133)
return dog_files, dog_targets
# load train, test, and validation datasets
train_files, train_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/train')
valid_files, valid_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/valid')
test_files, test_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/test')
# load list of dog names
dog_names = [item[20:-1] for item in sorted(glob("../../../data/dog_images/train/*/"))]
# print statistics about the dataset
print('There are %d total dog categories.' % len(dog_names))
print('There are %s total dog images.\n' % len(np.hstack([train_files, valid_files, test_files])))
print('There are %d training dog images.' % len(train_files))
print('There are %d validation dog images.' % len(valid_files))
print('There are %d test dog images.'% len(test_files))
In the code cell below, we import a dataset of human images, where the file paths are stored in the numpy array human_files.
import random
random.seed(8675309)
# load filenames in shuffled human dataset
human_files = np.array(glob("../../../data/lfw/*/*"))
random.shuffle(human_files)
# print statistics about the dataset
print('There are %d total human images.' % len(human_files))
We use OpenCV's implementation of Haar feature-based cascade classifiers to detect human faces in images. OpenCV provides many pre-trained face detectors, stored as XML files on github. We have downloaded one of these detectors and stored it in the haarcascades directory.
In the next code cell, we demonstrate how to use this detector to find human faces in a sample image.
import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
# extract pre-trained face detector
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
# load color (BGR) image
img = cv2.imread(human_files[288])
# convert BGR image to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# find faces in image
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
# print number of faces detected in the image
print('Number of faces detected:', len(faces))
# get bounding box for each detected face
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
# add bounding box to color image
cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2)
# convert BGR image to RGB for plotting
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
# display the image, along with bounding box
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
Before using any of the face detectors, it is standard procedure to convert the images to grayscale. The detectMultiScale function executes the classifier stored in face_cascade and takes the grayscale image as a parameter.
In the above code, faces is a numpy array of detected faces, where each row corresponds to a detected face. Each detected face is a 1D array with four entries that specifies the bounding box of the detected face. The first two entries in the array (extracted in the above code as x and y) specify the horizontal and vertical positions of the top left corner of the bounding box. The last two entries in the array (extracted here as w and h) specify the width and height of the box.
We can use this procedure to write a function that returns True if a human face is detected in an image and False otherwise. This function, aptly named face_detector, takes a string-valued file path to an image as input and appears in the code block below.
# returns "True" if face is detected in image stored at img_path
def face_detector(img_path):
"""
Description:
Detect whether the human face is detected in an image
Input :
img_path : path to image
Output:
boolean whether the human face is detected in an image or not
"""
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
return len(faces) > 0
Question 1: Use the code cell below to test the performance of the face_detector function.
human_files have a detected human face? dog_files have a detected human face? Ideally, we would like 100% of human images with a detected face and 0% of dog images with a detected face. You will see that our algorithm falls short of this goal, but still gives acceptable performance. We extract the file paths for the first 100 images from each of the datasets and store them in the numpy arrays human_files_short and dog_files_short.
Answer:
printed-result belowhuman_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = train_files[:100]
# Do NOT modify the code above this line.
"""=============================== : TODO : ===================================="""
## Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
Nb_human_face_detected = sum([face_detector(path) for path in human_files_short])
Nb_dog_face_detected= sum([face_detector(path) for path in dog_files_short])
# Print out results
print('Percentage of human_faces detected in the first 100 human_files_short: {}%'.
format(100*int(Nb_human_face_detected / 100)))
print('Percentage of faces detected in dog_files_short: {}%'.format(int(100*Nb_dog_face_detected / 100)))
Question 2: This algorithmic choice necessitates that we communicate to the user that we accept human images only when they provide a clear view of a face (otherwise, we risk having unneccessarily frustrated users!).
Answer:
We suggest the face detector from OpenCV as a potential way to detect human images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other approaches, especially approaches that make use of deep learning :). Please use the code cell below to design and test your own face detection algorithm. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on each of the datasets.
import os
print(os.listdir('haarcascades'))
img_folder = 'haarcascades' + '/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml'
cv2.CascadeClassifier(img_folder)
## (Optional) TODO: Report the performance of another face detection algorithm on the LFW dataset
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
def face_detector2(img_path, xml_file = 'haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml'):
'''
Using a CascadeClassifier from cv2 to check whether or not a face of a person is present in an image.
This Classifier works with the haarcascade-file 'haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml'
Args:
img_path: path to an image
Returns:
Return true, if a face of a person is present on the image. Else return false
'''
# Here I try another haarcascades classifier from opencv
# In this case -> haarcascade_frontalface_alt_tree.xml
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml')
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
return len(faces) > 0
Nb_human_face_detected = sum([face_detector2(path) for path in human_files_short])
Nb_dog_face_detected= sum([face_detector2(path) for path in dog_files_short])
print('Percentage of human_faces detected in the first 100 human_files_short: {}%'.
format(100*int(Nb_human_face_detected / 100)))
print('Percentage of faces detected in dog_files_short: {}%'.format(int(100*Nb_dog_face_detected / 100)))
In this section, we use a pre-trained ResNet-50 model to detect dogs in images.
from keras.applications.resnet50 import ResNet50
# define ResNet50 model
ResNet50_model = ResNet50(weights = 'imagenet')
When using TensorFlow as backend, Keras CNNs require a 4D array (which we'll also refer to as a 4D tensor) as input, with shape
$$ (\text{nb_samples}, \text{rows}, \text{columns}, \text{channels}), $$where nb_samples corresponds to the total number of images (or samples), and rows, columns, and channels correspond to the number of rows, columns, and channels for each image, respectively.
The path_to_tensor function below takes a string-valued file path to a color image as input and returns a 4D tensor suitable for supplying to a Keras CNN. The function first loads the image and resizes it to a square image that is $224 \times 224$ pixels. Next, the image is converted to an array, which is then resized to a 4D tensor. In this case, since we are working with color images, each image has three channels. Likewise, since we are processing a single image (or sample), the returned tensor will always have shape
The paths_to_tensor function takes a numpy array of string-valued image paths as input and returns a 4D tensor with shape
Here, nb_samples is the number of samples, or number of images, in the supplied array of image paths. It is best to think of nb_samples as the number of 3D tensors (where each 3D tensor corresponds to a different image) in your dataset!
from keras.preprocessing import image
from tqdm import tqdm
def path_to_tensor(img_path):
"""
Description: convert the path_of_image to a tensor 4D
Input :
img_path : directory / path to image
Output:
a 4D tensor
"""
# loads RGB image as PIL.Image.Image type
img = image.load_img(img_path, target_size = (224, 224))
# convert PIL.Image.Image type to 3D tensor with shape (224, 224, 3)
x = image.img_to_array(img)
# convert 3D tensor to 4D tensor with shape (1, 224, 224, 3) and return 4D tensor
return np.expand_dims(x, axis=0)
def paths_to_tensor(img_paths):
"""
Description: load all your image to a tensors as a list
Input:
img_path: path to your uploading image
Output:
An array that stacked the list of the 4D tensors
"""
list_of_tensors = [path_to_tensor(img_path) for img_path in tqdm(img_paths)]
return np.vstack(list_of_tensors)
Getting the 4D tensor ready for ResNet-50, and for any other pre-trained model in Keras, requires some additional processing. First, the RGB image is converted to BGR by reordering the channels. All pre-trained models have the additional normalization step that the mean pixel (expressed in RGB as $$[103.939, 116.779, 123.68]$$ and calculated from all pixels in all images in ImageNet) must be subtracted from every pixel in each image. This is implemented in the imported function preprocess_input. If you're curious, you can check the code for preprocess_input here.
Now that we have a way to format our image for supplying to ResNet-50, we are now ready to use the model to extract the predictions. This is accomplished with the predict method, which returns an array whose $i$-th entry is the model's predicted probability that the image belongs to the $i$-th ImageNet category. This is implemented in the ResNet50_predict_labels function below.
By taking the argmax of the predicted probability vector, we obtain an integer corresponding to the model's predicted object class, which we can identify with an object category through the use of this dictionary.
from keras.applications.resnet50 import preprocess_input, decode_predictions
def ResNet50_predict_labels(img_path):
"""
Description
This function print out the indices of the maximum values along an axis of the input array
Input
img_path : path to image
Output
the indices of the maximum values along an axis of the array of image.
"""
# returns prediction vector for image located at img_path
img = preprocess_input(path_to_tensor(img_path))
return np.argmax(ResNet50_model.predict(img))
While looking at the dictionary, you will notice that the categories corresponding to dogs appear in an uninterrupted sequence and correspond to dictionary keys 151-268, inclusive, to include all categories from 'Chihuahua' to 'Mexican hairless'.
Thus, in order to check to see if an image is predicted to contain a dog by the pre-trained ResNet-50 model, we need only check if the ResNet50_predict_labels function above returns a value between 151 and 268 (inclusive).
We use these ideas to complete the dog_detector function below, which returns True if a dog is detected in an image (and False if not).
### returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
def dog_detector(img_path):
"""
Description:
returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
Input
img_path : path to image
Output
boolean value of detection result
"""
prediction = ResNet50_predict_labels(img_path)
return ((prediction <= 268) & (prediction >= 151))
files = [human_files_short[0], dog_files_short[0]]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows = 1, ncols = 2, figsize = (20, 5))
for idx, file in enumerate(files):
load_img = cv2.imread(file)
rgb_img = cv2.cvtColor(load_img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
ax[idx].imshow(rgb_img)
ax[idx].set_title('Dog detector result: ' + str(dog_detector(file)))
Question 3: Use the code cell below to test the performance of your dog_detector function.
human_files_short have a detected dog? dog_files_short have a detected dog?Answer:
### TODO: Test the performance of the dog_detector function on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
Nb_human_face_detected = sum([dog_detector(path) for path in human_files_short])
Nb_dog_face_detected= sum([dog_detector(path) for path in dog_files_short])
print('Percentage of dogs detected in the first 100 human_files_short: {}%'.
format(100*int(Nb_human_face_detected / 100)))
print('Percentage of dogs detected in dog_files_short: {}%'.
format(int(100*Nb_dog_face_detected / 100)))
Now that we have functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, we need a way to predict breed from images. In this step, you will create a CNN that classifies dog breeds. You must create your CNN from scratch (so, you can't use transfer learning yet!), and you must attain a test accuracy of at least 1%. In Step 5 of this notebook, you will have the opportunity to use transfer learning to create a CNN that attains greatly improved accuracy.
from keras.layers import Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, GlobalAveragePooling2D
from keras.layers import Dropout, Flatten, Dense
from keras.models import Sequential
model = Sequential()
Be careful with adding too many trainable layers! More parameters means longer training, which means you are more likely to need a GPU to accelerate the training process. Thankfully, Keras provides a handy estimate of the time that each epoch is likely to take; you can extrapolate this estimate to figure out how long it will take for your algorithm to train.
We mention that the task of assigning breed to dogs from images is considered exceptionally challenging. To see why, consider that even a human would have great difficulty in distinguishing between a Brittany and a Welsh Springer Spaniel.
| Brittany | Welsh Springer Spaniel |
|---|---|
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It is not difficult to find other dog breed pairs with minimal inter-class variation (for instance, Curly-Coated Retrievers and American Water Spaniels).
| Curly-Coated Retriever | American Water Spaniel |
|---|---|
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Likewise, recall that labradors come in yellow, chocolate, and black. Your vision-based algorithm will have to conquer this high intra-class variation to determine how to classify all of these different shades as the same breed.
| Yellow Labrador | Chocolate Labrador | Black Labrador |
|---|---|---|
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We also mention that random chance presents an exceptionally low bar: setting aside the fact that the classes are slightly imabalanced, a random guess will provide a correct answer roughly 1 in 133 times, which corresponds to an accuracy of less than 1%.
Remember that the practice is far ahead of the theory in deep learning. Experiment with many different architectures, and trust your intuition. And, of course, have fun!
We rescale the images by dividing every pixel in every image by 255.
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
# pre-process the data for Keras
train_tensors = paths_to_tensor(train_files).astype('float32')/255
valid_tensors = paths_to_tensor(valid_files).astype('float32')/255
test_tensors = paths_to_tensor(test_files).astype('float32')/255
Create a CNN to classify dog breed. At the end of your code cell block, summarize the layers of your model by executing the line:
model.summary()
We have imported some Python modules to get you started, but feel free to import as many modules as you need. If you end up getting stuck, here's a hint that specifies a model that trains relatively fast on CPU and attains >1% test accuracy in 5 epochs:

Question 4: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. If you chose to use the hinted architecture above, describe why you think that CNN architecture should work well for the image classification task.
Answer:
- I used 3 Convolutional Layers with 16, 32, 64 filters respectively in order to discover features from the images.
- Beside that, between these convolutional layers; added a Max Pooling Layer.
- I used a Dense Layer with a
ReLU(the 1st and 3rd) andsigmoidactivation functions at the convolutional layers- For the output layer, I used a softmax activation function to get results in percentage.
### TODO: Define your architecture.
model.add(Conv2D(16, kernel_size = 2, strides = (1, 1),
input_shape = (224, 224, 3),
activation = 'relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size = 2, strides = (2, 2), padding = 'valid'))
model.add(Conv2D(32, kernel_size = 2,
strides = (1, 1), activation = 'sigmoid'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size = 2, strides = (2, 2), padding = 'same'))
model.add(Conv2D(64, kernel_size = 2,
strides = (1, 1), activation = 'relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size = 2, strides = (2, 2), padding = 'same'))
model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D())
model.add(Dropout(0.25))
model.add(Dense(133, activation = 'softmax'))
model.summary()
model.compile(optimizer = 'rmsprop',
loss = 'categorical_crossentropy',
metrics=['accuracy'])
Before train the model, I will generate batches of tensor image data with real-time data augmentation by using the preprocessing.image on keras
Nhớ đổi tên mấy thằng dưới đây
from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
img_gen_train = ImageDataGenerator(
fill_mode = 'constant', # Points outside the boundaries of the input are filled according to the
# given mode: kkkkkkkk|abcd|kkkkkkkk (cval=k)
width_shift_range = 0.15, # randomly shift images horizontally (15% of total width)
height_shift_range = 0.15, # randomly shift images vertically (15% of total height)
horizontal_flip = True) # randomly flip images horizontally
img_gen_valid = ImageDataGenerator(
fill_mode = 'constant', # Points outside the boundaries of the input are filled according to the
# given mode: kkkkkkkk|abcd|kkkkkkkk (cval=k)
width_shift_range = 0.15, # randomly shift images horizontally (15% of total width)
height_shift_range = 0.15, # randomly shift images vertically (15% of total height)
horizontal_flip = True) # randomly flip images horizontally
img_gen_train
img_gen_train.fit(train_tensors)
img_gen_valid.fit(valid_tensors)
Train your model in the code cell below. Use model checkpointing to save the model that attains the best validation loss.
You are welcome to augment the training data, but this is not a requirement.
from keras.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint
### TODO: specify the number of epochs that you would like to use to train the model.
epochs = 3
batch_size = 64 # I have tried 16, 32 before but not good
### Do NOT modify the code below this line.
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath = 'saved_models/weights.best.from_scratch.hdf5',
verbose = 2,
save_best_only = True)
history = model.fit_generator(
img_gen_train.flow(train_tensors, train_targets, # training data (X, y, batchsize)
batch_size = batch_size),
steps_per_epoch = train_tensors.shape[0] // batch_size, # Total number of steps (batches of samples) before declaring
# one epoch finished and starting the next epoch.
epochs = epochs, # Number of samples per gradient update.
verbose = 1, # Verbosity mode
callbacks = [checkpointer],
validation_data = img_gen_valid.flow(valid_tensors, valid_targets,# Data on which to evaluate the loss and any model metrics
# at the end of each epoch.
batch_size = batch_size), # The model will not be trained on this data.
validation_steps = valid_tensors.shape[0] // batch_size # Total number of steps (batches of samples) to draw before
# stopping when performing validation at the end of every epoch.
)
model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.from_scratch.hdf5')
Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 1%.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
dog_breed_predictions = [np.argmax(model.predict(np.expand_dims(tensor, axis=0))) for tensor in test_tensors]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(dog_breed_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(dog_breed_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
training and validattion sets¶def display_model_acc_loss(model_history = history, loc = 'best', figsize = (20, 8)):
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows = 1, ncols = 2, figsize = figsize)
plot_types = ['loss', 'acc']
titles = ['loss', 'accuracy']
for k in range(2):
ax[k].plot(model_history.history[plot_types[k]])
ax[k].plot(model_history.history['val_' + plot_types[k]])
ax[k].set_ylabel(titles[k])
ax[k].set_xlabel('epoch')
ax[k].legend(['train', 'validation'], loc = loc)
ax[k].set_title(titles[k])
plt.show()
display_model_acc_loss(history)
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/DogVGG16Data.npz')
train_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['test']
The model uses the the pre-trained VGG-16 model as a fixed feature extractor, where the last convolutional output of VGG-16 is fed as input to our model. We only add a global average pooling layer and a fully connected layer, where the latter contains one node for each dog category and is equipped with a softmax.
VGG16_model = Sequential()
VGG16_model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D(input_shape=train_VGG16.shape[1:]))
# But here, i want to check what will happen if adding the drop-out
VGG16_model.add(Dropout(0.1))
VGG16_model.add(Dense(133, activation='softmax'))
VGG16_model.summary()
VGG16_model.compile(loss = 'categorical_crossentropy',
optimizer = 'rmsprop',
metrics = ['accuracy'])
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.VGG16.hdf5',
verbose = 1, save_best_only = True)
VGG16_history = VGG16_model.fit(train_VGG16, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_VGG16, valid_targets),
epochs = 20, batch_size = 32,
callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose = 1)
VGG16_model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.VGG16.hdf5')
%time display_model_acc_loss(VGG16_history)
Now, we can use the CNN to test how well it identifies breed within our test dataset of dog images. We print the test accuracy below.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
VGG16_predictions = [np.argmax(VGG16_model.predict(np.expand_dims(feature, axis = 0))) for feature in test_VGG16]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(VGG16_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis = 1))/len(VGG16_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
from extract_bottleneck_features import *
def VGG16_predict_breed(img_path):
# extract bottleneck features
bottleneck_feature = extract_VGG16(path_to_tensor(img_path))
# obtain predicted vector
predicted_vector = VGG16_model.predict(bottleneck_feature)
# return dog breed that is predicted by the model
return dog_names[np.argmax(predicted_vector)]
image_paths = dog_files_short[:9]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows = 3, ncols = 3, figsize = (20, 20))
ax = ax.ravel()
for k in range(9):
images = cv2.imread(image_paths[k])
img_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(images, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
ax[k].imshow(img_rgb)
dog_breed = VGG16_predict_breed(image_paths[k]).replace('ages/train/', '')[4:]
ax[k].set_title('predict result:' + dog_breed)
You will now use transfer learning to create a CNN that can identify dog breed from images. Your CNN must attain at least 60% accuracy on the test set.
In Step 4, we used transfer learning to create a CNN using VGG-16 bottleneck features. In this section, you must use the bottleneck features from a different pre-trained model. To make things easier for you, we have pre-computed the features for all of the networks that are currently available in Keras:
os.listdir('bottleneck_features')
The files are encoded as such:
Dog{network}Data.npz
where {network}, in the above filename, can be one of VGG19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, or Xception. Pick one of the above architectures, download the corresponding bottleneck features, and store the downloaded file in the bottleneck_features/ folder in the repository.
In the code block below, extract the bottleneck features corresponding to the train, test, and validation sets by running the following:
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/Dog{network}Data.npz')
train_{network} = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_{network} = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_{network} = bottleneck_features['test']
### TODO: Obtain bottleneck features from another pre-trained CNN.
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/DogResnet50Data.npz')
train_res50net = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_res50net = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_res50net = bottleneck_features['test']
Create a CNN to classify dog breed. At the end of your code cell block, summarize the layers of your model by executing the line:
<your model's name>.summary()
Question 5: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. Describe why you think the architecture is suitable for the current problem.
Answer:
In this case, I used the ResNet50 model and I get the accuracy about 84.9%
I also added a fully connected layer with 512 nodes and a ReLU activation function to detect more patterns and a Dropout to avoid overfitting.
### TODO: Define your architecture.
res50net_model = Sequential()
res50net_model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D(input_shape = train_res50net.shape[1:]))
res50net_model.add(Dense(512, activation='relu'))
res50net_model.add(Dropout(0.2))
res50net_model.add(Dense(133, activation='softmax'))
# <your model's name>.summary()
res50net_model.summary()
### TODO: Compile the model.
from keras.optimizers import SGD
res50net_model.compile(loss = 'categorical_crossentropy',
optimizer = SGD(lr = 0.001), metrics = ['accuracy'])
Train your model in the code cell below. Use model checkpointing to save the model that attains the best validation loss.
You are welcome to augment the training data, but this is not a requirement.
### TODO: Train the model.
from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.Resnet50.hdf5',
verbose = 2, save_best_only = True)
resnet50_history = res50net_model.fit(train_res50net, train_targets,
validation_data = (valid_res50net, valid_targets),
epochs = 200, batch_size = 64,
callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose = 0)
%time display_model_acc_loss(resnet50_history)
### TODO: Load the model weights with the best validation loss.
res50net_model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.Resnet50.hdf5')
Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 60%.
### TODO: Calculate classification accuracy on the test dataset.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
resnet50_predictions = [np.argmax(res50net_model.predict(np.expand_dims(feature, axis=0))) for feature in test_res50net]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(resnet50_predictions) == np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(resnet50_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
Write a function that takes an image path as input and returns the dog breed (Affenpinscher, Afghan_hound, etc) that is predicted by your model.
Similar to the analogous function in Step 5, your function should have three steps:
dog_names array defined in Step 0 of this notebook to return the corresponding breed.The functions to extract the bottleneck features can be found in extract_bottleneck_features.py, and they have been imported in an earlier code cell. To obtain the bottleneck features corresponding to your chosen CNN architecture, you need to use the function
extract_{network}
where {network}, in the above filename, should be one of VGG19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, or Xception.
### TODO: Write a function that takes a path to an image as input and returns the dog breed that is predicted by the model.
def ResNet50_predict_breed(img_path):
# extract bottleneck features
bottleneck_feature = extract_Resnet50(path_to_tensor(img_path))
# obtain predicted vector
predicted_vector = res50net_model.predict(bottleneck_feature)
# return dog breed that is predicted by the model
return dog_names[np.argmax(predicted_vector)]
image_paths = dog_files_short[:9]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows = 3, ncols = 3, figsize = (20, 20))
ax = ax.ravel()
for k in range(9):
images = cv2.imread(image_paths[k])
img_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(images, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
ax[k].imshow(img_rgb)
dog_breed = ResNet50_predict_breed(image_paths[k]).replace('ages/train/', '')[4:]
ax[k].set_title('predicted result: ' + dog_breed)
Write an algorithm that accepts a file path to an image and first determines whether the image contains a human, dog, or neither. Then,
predicted breed.resembling dog breed.indicates an error.You are welcome to write your own functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, but feel free to use the face_detector and dog_detector functions developed above. You are required to use your CNN from Step 5 to predict dog breed.
A sample image and output for our algorithm is provided below, but feel free to design your own user experience!

This photo looks like an Afghan Hound.
### TODO: Write your algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
def predict_breed(img_path, img_width = 10):
"""
Description: This function is used to determine whether the image contains a human, dog, both or neither
Input
img_path : path to the image
img_width (int): width of the displayed image belong, default = 10
Output
show the image and the comment of detection result
"""
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
ratio = img.shape[0] / img.shape[1]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize = (img_width, int(img_width*ratio)))
ax.imshow(cv_rgb)
ax.set_title('image_path is {}'.format(img_path))
plt.show()
breed = ResNet50_predict_breed(img_path).replace('ages/train/', '')[4:]
if dog_detector(img_path) & (face_detector(img_path) == 0):
print("Dog detector: True")
return print("This dog breed can be a {}".format(breed))
elif face_detector(img_path) & (dog_detector(img_path) == 0):
print("Human detector: True")
return print("If this one were a dog, he / she would be a ... {}!!".format(breed))
elif face_detector(img_path) & (dog_detector(img_path) == 1):
print("Dog and human were detected in this image")
return print("If this one were a dog, he / she would be a ... {}!!".format(breed))
else:
return print("Oopss... The algoritm must be improved or 'No human or dog has been detected in this image'.")
predict_breed('images/sample_human_2.png')
In this section, you will take your new algorithm for a spin! What kind of dog does the algorithm think that you look like? If you have a dog, does it predict your dog's breed accurately? If you have a cat, does it mistakenly think that your cat is a dog?
Test your algorithm at least six images on your computer. Feel free to use any images you like. Use at least two human and two dog images.
Question 6: Is the output better than you expected :) ? Or worse :( ? Provide at least three possible points of improvement for your algorithm.
Answer:
- We used the function
face_detector2to replaceface_detector- We used
Image Augmentation- Prevent overfiting by using
Dropoutbetter (for exampleDropout(0.3))- We have more images for training
- Increasing the depth of the neural network
images## TODO: Execute your algorithm from Step 6 on at least 6 images on your computer.
## Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
image_list = os.listdir('images')
image_list = [img for img in image_list if img not in ['ipynb_checkpoints', '.ipynb_checkpoints',
'sample_cnn.png', 'sample_human_2.png']]
image_list = sorted(image_list)
print(image_list)
len(image_list)
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[0]
predict_breed(image_path)
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[1]
predict_breed(image_path)
=> Cons 1. In this case, the only the dog was in the picture but my algorithm has detected the human and dog! This may be I has use the function face_detector instead of face_detector2-which will better the first one.
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[10]
predict_breed(image_path)
=> Cons 2. In this case, the woman and her dog can not be detected. Because the algoritm can not work well if the faces is not frontal face, I think.
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[8]
predict_breed(image_path)
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[-1]
predict_breed(image_path)
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[9]
predict_breed(image_path)
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[13]
predict_breed(image_path)
image_path = 'images/' + image_list[11]
predict_breed(image_path)
image_path = 'images/dog_1.png'
predict_breed(image_path)